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How big is a big order? I can think of a merchant who'd do a ¼m³ mini-pack delivered nationally, but no-one in your area.

Personally I'm a firm beliver that the traditional style wooden gauges are the best type available, so I'd get several of the inexpensive Marples Pattern ones from faithful or crown tools and use a file to sharpen the pins into small knifeblades. You could get several old ones from ebay and...

I knocked on of these up yesterday afternoon, whilst waiting for someone; It was perhaps a tad rushed in execution, as I always forget how quickly all of the angles can confuse the life out of you if you're not paying attention. Its just made from a single 3.6m length of ex 200 x 50 c16...

A push stick gets my vote for Table saw, clearing offcuts from RAS, Bandsaw, Spindle Moulder. When using a planer I tend work with long boards and feed using just my hands,never letting them closer than 6" (ideally a foot) to the cutters, when planing short stock I usually use a pair of push...

Yeah, it's just too uniform to my mind, nor does it make sense why you'd weld it* or how you'd do it without marring/obliterating the "steel head" stamp *Given there's a good half an inch of undamaged "meat" between the possible crack and the eye, I'd probably have just ground it flat and...

I recieved this axe in the post at work today, it was bought on ebay because, I wanted a medium sized axe which was small enough to use for large joinery tasks, but big enough to use for limbing trees and squaring up logs. It's manufactured by J. Tyzack, and I have become rather fond of most of...

I live just round the corner from both them and Atkinson Walker, but I'm yet to get an opportunity to go in due to my working hours... I dunno though, it kinda feels cheeky to go asking their advice when I'm not a customer (though they do sell froes, which I could probably do with at some point...

Know what I'm doing might be an overstatement! I have rapidly aquired a lot of knowledge, and a used that to form a plan; experience teaches me that following the plan through will be hard and time consuming, but entirely achievable. The ability to take on this type of project with my eyes...

This, so much this... When I still lived in wales If I bought from the two local branches of Huws Grey, I paid cash and got charged punter price; If I bought at their Mill in Llangefni (which I used frequently to resaw large sections) I was known well enough to qualify for discount... The only...

Have you tried contacting the importers directly. ArborForest Products can source packs of just about any combination of size, length and grade* of redwood or whitewood you need, so long as you're willing to wait for the next ship. Prices will be simmilar to the prices paid by smaller...

I've been filing my own saws, and those of friends, for a couple of years now and have experimented with cutting some unconventional geometries by file, I've also more recently learned about flattening bent saws with a hammer and anvil, which leads on to "tensioning" saws, which is a convoluted...

If you cut kerfs into the curve with a normal saw then used it for short cuts to hog out the waste and finally tided it up with a paring gouge it would work, though kerf cuts and a firmer gouge would probably do just as good a job...

Can anyone recommend a comprehensive text on drafting, as documented elsewhere on the forum, I'm currently in the process of making punch, die and toolholder for a flypress, and have had to prepare engineering drawings of the parts before I machine them. As the drawings are forecmy own...

I've secured access to a milling machine and prepared all my drawings so hopefully I can get the tooling machined to approximate size next weekend (If i can source a small order of D6 bar and rod by then). Still working out where to get the heat treatment done, but i'll have time to work on...

Contact Daltons (aka DaltonsWadkin) they should be able to supply you with new/new old stock parts, and should have the engineering drawings too. I know it's not quite what you asked, but daltons are pretty helpful in general, and will still provide dealer support for the old wadkin machines...

When I worked in a sawmill I recall seeing this trick, or rather a variant of it where you grind the knives as normal but with a much smaller relief angle and regrind and shim clamping blocks that fit into the planer block to adjust the angle of the knives. That took a lot of toolroom work, but...

Yup... Correct, the village carpenter (a fine book if you have a few hours to spare) says as much, as an aside to taking about the saw pit.

Silver steel is a variety of tool steel, with a small amount (around 0.45%) of chromium, compared to 420 stainless or D2 (13.5% & 12% respectively) that's not very much, but the specific alloy is nontheless very reflective and light coloured, hence the name. It attains a hardness of 64C, which...

The oak framing trade association have a yearly event with pitsawing as one of many attractions... No need for a pit though, you've always wanted to build some 6' high sawhorses, you just didn't know it until now. (Given i'm currently taking my umpteenth break of the afternoon from resawing 4"...

Grabbed some quick pictures of one of the little bits, this still has the sapwood on, and was from a larger bit i ripped and cut into sections. The twist was too great for planing it out to make sense. Figuring, kindof. End Grain. Mod Edit: Image URL completion.